Former Child Labourer Free Quality Education Key to Ending Child Labour
Lucky Agbavor survived child labour in Ghana and put himself through school by selling ice cream. The Pentecostal Church pays
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Development & Aid
The Risks of Turning Planet Earth into a Giant Desert
Droughts represent 15% of natural disasters but took the largest human toll, approximately 650,000 deaths from 1970-2019, Credit: Guillermo Flores/IPS
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Fighting Inflation Excuse for Class Warfare
Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Anis Chowdhury (sydney and kuala lumpur) Tuesday, May 24, 2022 Inter Press Service SYDNEY and KUALA
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Private Sector Needed as Addressing Education in Emergencies is Everyones Business
Director-General of Swiss Development Cooperation Patricia Danzi said the long-term education crisis also needed addressing, and private sector participation would
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Cuban Farmers Fight Land Degradation with Sustainable Management
Farmer José Antonio Sosa, known as Ché, stresses the importance of taking into account the direction of the land for
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Covid-19: Rise of the Super Rich & Fall of the World’s Poor
Women in Nigeria collect food vouchers as part of a programme to support families struggling under the COVID-19 lockdown. Credit:
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By Deliberately Ignoring Risk, the World Is Bankrolling Its Own Destruction
“The good news is that human decisions are the largest contributors to disaster risk, so we have the power to
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What India Needs To Do To Achieve Net-Zero Status by 2070
As India grows and develops, its economic production and energy consumption will increase. | Picture courtesy: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Opinion
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Caring for Water Where Mining Leads to Wealth and Tragedies in Brazil
A mountainous landscape in the area of the headwaters of the Velhas River, where “barraginhas”, the Portuguese name for holes
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Debt Distress in Africa: Problems and Ways Forward
Danny Bradlow Opinion by Danny Bradlow, Magalie Masamba (pretoria, south africa) Thursday, May 19, 2022 Inter Press Service PRETORIA, South Africa,
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